Describes a program in a large urban district in Texas that translated research in classroom management, instructional and school effectiveness, school climate, and staff development into practical classroom and school applications. (MW)

An Iowa project working with elementary students' attitudes toward people with disabilities could be effectively revamped as a teacher inservice program involving discrimination activities, group discussions, films, orientation and observation videos, an overview of Public Law 94-142, and information about support service agencies. Includes 11…

Studies 34 elementary school children's understanding of five aspects of energy waste and the ways in which these conceptions develop following teaching. Concludes that the children had good prior awareness of some behaviors that save energy, but their reasons for thinking this were based largely on everyday intuitive ideas that involved…

THREE PILOT PROJECTS WERE CONDUCTED IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, AND FARMINGDALE, NEW YORK, WITH ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE PROJECTS IN BALTIMORE AND SAN DIEGO PROVIDED INSERVICE SEMINARS FOR MUSIC TEACHERS ALONG WITH PILOT CLASSES IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF SCHOOLS. OBJECTIVES OF THESE TWO PROJECTS WERE…

This paper presents findings of a study that examined the factors that hinder or promote teachers in taking greater responsibility for their professional growth and decreasing their dependence on principals' instructional leadership. The paper explores the consequences of an inservice collaborative activity between the principal and teachers in…

This survey is the fifth in a series conducted to gather information about attitudinal barriers to parent involvement and to examine their implications for teacher training. In six states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas), school superintendents, school board presidents, and state agency officials were asked about…

Although parental involvement can be important for improving schools, very few parents are involved. This paper explores attitudinal barriers to such involvement from the perspectives of 1,200 superintendents, 664 school board presidents, and 30 state agency officials in six states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and…

Five selections summarize training methods for the principalship from the perspective that cognizance of the complexities of being a principal arises from practice, thus experiential learning should be incorporated into preservice and inservice training programs. The first selection, "Making Sense of Principals' Work," by Kent Petersen, is a…

To address the problem of increasing professional isolation of building administrators, the Principals' Inservice Project helps establish principals' collegial support groups across the nation. The groups are typically composed of 6 to 10 principals who meet at least once each month over a 2-year period. One collegial support group of seven…

This is a final report on the Follow Through Resource Center at Community School 77 in the Bronx (New York). The Center was established in 1977 to disseminate information about the University of Kansas behavior analysis Follow Through model. The report discusses the program's activities during 1980-81, and includes an evaluation of the Center's…

This three year study compared three organizational plans for teaching remedial reading by spending one year each at different grade levels: primary, intermediate, and seven-eight, in that order. In the first plan a reading consultant tutored childen individually in a reading clinic. In the second plan a master reading teacher provided aid in…

This five-part report evaluates the First-Year Teacher Pilot Program utilized at Alabama University in Birmingham. The program was designed primarily to improve teacher competence, thereby improving the teaching learning process in the elementary and secondary classrooms of Alabama. In addition, a research component was designed to obtain…

This paper describes a study of an organization development intervention with an eight-person teaching-support-administrative team in a suburban elementary school. Data for the study were gathered through observation by two participant-observers, through interviews with all eight direct participants in the team-building project, and through a…

This pamphlet is a directory of projects supported by the Division of Pre-College Education in Science, National Science Foundation (NSF), fiscal year 1970. Programs are listed in four categories: 1) Curriculum Activities: curriculum development projects; 2) Implementation Activites: Resource Personnel Workshops to implement NSF curriculum…

The Prescriptive Counselor Model, as proposed for the elementary school, focuses on changing specific student behaviors through a particular prescription of materials, activities, and suggestions for teachers, parents, and the child himself. The theoretical emphasis is on dealing with behaviors by observing, conferring, setting goals, developing…